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May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026 Scientists at UBC Okanagan have uncovered how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare natural compound with promising anti cancer potential. The team identified two enzymes that work together to build the molecule’s unusual twisted structure, solving ...
May 12, 2026 Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common cold—to reproduce inside human cells. The team ...
May 12, 2026 Researchers found a new way to kill harmful “zombie” cells that linger after chemotherapy and help cancers become more aggressive. These senescent cells survive by relying on a protective protein called GPX4, even while sitting on the edge of a ...
May 12, 2026 As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ability to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells. By calming this ...
May 12, 2026 A four-week diet change was enough to make some older adults appear biologically younger in a new University of Sydney study. Participants who reduced fat intake or shifted toward more plant-based ...
May 12, 2026 Scientists at McGill University have uncovered a hidden molecular “switch” that turns on a powerful calorie-burning system in brown fat — the body’s heat-generating fat linked to metabolism and weight control. The breakthrough centers on ...
May 12, 2026 Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet. The algae produce limonene, an orange-scented oil that helps them bind to water-repelling microplastics, forming ...
May 12, 2026 A bizarre new giant dinosaur discovered in Argentina is giving paleontologists a fresh look at how Jurassic titans evolved in the Southern Hemisphere. Bicharracosaurus dionidei stretched about 20 meters long and carried a strange mix of features ...
May 12, 2026 Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind by tiny worm-like creatures are now believed to be fossilized ...
May 12, 2026 Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers discovered that living systems leave behind a kind ...
May 12, 2026 Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with ...
May 12, 2026 Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By ...
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May 11, 2026 The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe ...
May 11, 2026 Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands ...
May 11, 2026 An ancient Chinese exercise routine may be just as powerful as a daily brisk walk for lowering blood pressure — without equipment, gyms, or intense workouts. In a major clinical trial, adults with ...
May 11, 2026 NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious ...
May 11, 2026 NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the ...
May 11, 2026 Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic ...
May 11, 2026 A new study suggests AI chatbots may do more than spread misinformation — they can actively strengthen a user’s false beliefs. Because conversational AI often validates and builds on what users ...
May 10, 2026 A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected ...
May 10, 2026 Scientists at the University of Rochester pulled off a remarkable experiment: they transferred a longevity-related gene from the famously long-lived naked mole rat into mice, and the mice ended up ...
May 10, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a hidden “stop-scratching” signal in the nervous system that tells your brain when enough scratching is enough. The discovery centers on a molecule called TRPV4, which ...
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May 10, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a hidden Antarctic threat that could accelerate global sea level rise far faster than expected. Deep beneath floating ice shelves, long channels carved into the ice appear ...
May 8, 2026 The Universe’s biggest black holes may not be born giants after all. Scientists analyzing gravitational-wave signals from dozens of black hole collisions found evidence that the heaviest black ...
May 9, 2026 Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago. The tools, created by Homo juluensis, show careful planning ...
May 7, 2026 Eating eggs might do more than just start your day—it could help protect your brain. Researchers found that people 65 and older who eat eggs regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing ...
May 7, 2026 A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby ...
May 7, 2026 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the universe. A massive galaxy, formed less than 2 billion years after the ...
May 6, 2026 A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origin’s uncrewed MK1 “Endurance” lander, designed to test the technologies that future astronauts will rely on. Built in ...
May 5, 2026 Astronomers have spotted something surprising in the far outer Solar System—a faint, short-lived atmosphere clinging to a tiny icy world that shouldn’t be able to hold one at all. The object, ...
May 4, 2026 A new quantum physics study reveals that simply changing a magnetic field over time can unlock entirely new forms of matter that don’t exist under normal conditions. By carefully “driving” ...
May 5, 2026 A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers studied LHS 3844 b—a ...
May 4, 2026 A new study suggests depression may soon be detectable through a simple blood test—by tracking how certain immune cells age. Researchers found that accelerated aging in monocytes, a type of white ...
May 4, 2026 Creatine might be famous in the gym, but its real story is far more interesting. Naturally produced in the body, it helps power cells by rapidly regenerating ATP—the fuel that keeps muscles, the ...
May 5, 2026 Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily attacked one year, they delay leaf growth by just three days the next ...
May 1, 2026 Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing—an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in ...
May 9, 2026 Fur seals may look like they’re simply resting after exhausting hunting trips at sea, but their bodies are secretly working overtime. Scientists discovered that hours after returning to land, the ...
May 4, 2026 For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic structure remained a mystery—until now. Researchers have finally mapped ...
May 4, 2026 Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...
May 7, 2026 A little-known tree from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hold a surprising weapon against COVID-19. Researchers discovered that compounds called galloylquinic acids, extracted from its leaves, can ...
May 6, 2026 A powerful new electromagnetic thruster has taken a major step forward after a successful high-energy test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fueled by lithium vapor and driven by intense ...
Apr. 30, 2026 The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized contact zone that lets them destroy dangerous cells without harming ...
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- Eating Eggs Could Cut Alzheimer’s Risk by 27%
- This Strange Planet Pair Shouldn’t Exist, but It Does
- Webb Space Telescope Finds a Giant Galaxy That Doesn’t Spin
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- This Simple Blood Test Might Detect Depression Before Symptoms Appear
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- MIT Scientists Finally Reveal the Hidden Structure of a Mysterious High-Tech Material
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- A Hidden Map in Your Nose Could Explain How Smell Works
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- The Creepy Feeling in Old Buildings Might Have a Surprising Cause
- Scientists Found the Brain Doesn’t Start Blank, It Starts Full
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- Scientists Stunned as JWST Finds Ice Clouds on a Giant Alien Planet
- DNA Reveals a Hidden Pitviper Species in China
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- Ancient DNA Reveals a Lost Population Near Paris Replaced by Strangers
- Ancient DNA Reveals a Hidden Neanderthal Group Frozen in Time
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- This Common Plant Could Clean Microplastics from Your Drinking Water
- Scientists Stunned as Bacteria Rewire DNA Machinery to Shape Cells
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- A Crushed Fossil Revealed a Dinosaur That Shouldn’t Have Existed
- Scientists Think Alien Life Might Be Hiding in Patterns
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- This Laser Turns Metal Into a Star-Like Plasma in Trillionths of a Second
- This “Pink Floyd” Spider Hunts Prey 6x Its Size and Lives in Walls
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- Scientists Discover Why Bread Can Cause Weight Gain Without Extra Calories
- Scientists Discover “cleaner Ants” That Groom Giant Ants in Arizona Desert
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- Gray Whales Are Entering San Francisco Bay and Many Aren’t Surviving
- Light Makes Plants Stronger but Also Holds Them Back
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- How Aggressive Breast Cancer Turns Off the Immune System
- Why Ozempic Doesn’t Work for Everyone: Scientists Just Found a Hidden Reason
- Hidden Weak Spots in HIV and Ebola Revealed With Breakthrough Nanodisc Technology
- The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast and Scientists Still Can’t Explain It
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- Dragonflies Can See a Color Humans Can’t and It Could Change Medicine
- The World Is Getting Brighter at Night but Some Places Are Going Dark
- Scientists Finally Uncover Why Promising Cancer Drugs Keep Failing
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- The World’s “oldest Octopus” Was Never an Octopus
- Scientists Map the Brain’s Hidden Wiring Using RNA Barcodes in Major Breakthrough
- Scientists Discover Reversible Male Birth Control That Stops Sperm Production
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- Scientists Discover Hidden Brain Switch That Tells You to Stop Eating
- The Brain Might Not Create Consciousness After All